Ann Genovese is an interdisciplinary scholar, who holds both law and history degrees. Her PhD (in History), The Battered Body (1998) focused on the interrelationships between these disciplines [see: http://utsescholarship.lib.uts.edu.au/iresearch/scholarly-works/handle/2100/276?show=full.] Her research since that time has continued to interrogate in different ways the history and theory of the relationship between Australian law, the State and political culture.
Her major projects, more specifically, have focused on:
- History, law and indigenous peoples;
- History of feminist legal activism;
- History of the Administrative state.
Through these projects Ann has expertise in a range of jurisdictions and areas of law: evidence, family law, administrative law, principles of public law, legal history, criminal law and native title.
Ann's publications include Rights and Redemption (UNSWP, 2008), (with Ann Curthoys and Alex Reilly), which has been widely reviewed, and cited by the High Court in Northern Territory of Australia v Arnhem Land Aboriginal Land Trust [2008] HCA 29 (30 July 2008); and the forthcoming edited collection Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility (with Julie Evans, Patrick Wolfe, and Alexander Reilly).
Ann has been the recipient of an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (undertaken at Melbourne Law School in relation to her work on feminist theory, family law and the state); a Fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre ANU (for their Law and the Humanities themed year), and part of a successful ARC Discovery Grant team for research into historical evidence and indigenous litigation.
Prior to joining the MLS, Ann worked at the Justice Research Centre, Law Foundation of NSW, conducting interdisciplinary policy research; her work at JRC included the the report Changing Face of Litigation: Unrepresented Litigants in the Family Court of Australia,(2002) co-authored with Rosemary Hunter, which has been frequently cited, for example, in Senate Committees on reforms of the Family Law Act. She also taught in law and humanities faculties at UTS and UNSW.
She is Programme Director of the Australian Legal Histories research programme, Institute for International law and the Humanities (IILAH) , at the MLS, a member of editorial board of Australian Feminist Studies, and a corresponding editor for Feminist Review.
She reviews for a range of journals, from Australian Historical Studies to borderlands, Univerity of New South Wales Law Review to the Indigenous Law Journal.
Ann has presented work by invitation at the Federal Court, SOAS, the Sydney Institute, and numerous Australian universities and public forums.
Ann is currently supervising doctoral students who work between law and humanities, and is experienced in cross Faculty supervisions.
In 2012 Ann will be teaching Administrative Law , and the subject Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and law, in the JD Program, as well as contributing to the cross Faculty subject Land, Law, Philosophy.
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